{"id":241,"date":"2009-12-09T17:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T01:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10083047.post-487268148454157240"},"modified":"2009-12-09T17:54:36","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T01:54:36","slug":"monkeys-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/09\/monkeys-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Monkeys &amp; language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The paper is out, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2009\/12\/08\/0908118106.short?rss=1\">Campbell&#8217;s monkeys concatenate vocalizations into context-specific call sequences<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/08\/science\/08monkey.html?pagewanted=print\">Nicholas Wade<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/notrocketscience\/2009\/12\/campbells_monkeys_have_a_rich_vocabulary_based_on_combinatio.php\">Ed Yong<\/a> review the evidence. One of the issues is that chimps don&#8217;t seem to have syntax, so how can a monkey? But since domesticated dogs have better human-comprehensible theory of mind than chimps I don&#8217;t think genetic distance or general intelligence should weight <i>that<\/i> highly.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/10083047-487268148454157240?l=www.gnxp.com%2Fblog%2Findex.php' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The paper is out, Campbell&#8217;s monkeys concatenate vocalizations into context-specific call sequences. Nicholas Wade and Ed Yong review the evidence. One of the issues is that chimps don&#8217;t seem to have syntax, so how can a monkey? But since domesticated &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}